Basford, Cheshire

Basford
Locomotives at Basford Hall railway yard
Basford
Basford shown within Cheshire
Population	256 (2011)
OS grid reference	SJ715522
Civil parish	Basford
Unitary authority	Cheshire East
Ceremonial county	Cheshire
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CREWE
Postcode district	CW2
Dialling code	01270

Police	Cheshire
Fire	Cheshire
Ambulance	North West

EU Parliament	North West England
UK Parliament	Crewe and Nantwich

Basford is a civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, just south of Crewe. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 266, reducing slightly to 256 at the 2011 Census.^[1]

Governance

The civil parish is administered jointly with the adjacent parish of Weston.^[2] The Weston and Basford Parish Council meets monthly and discusses a wide range of community issues.^[3] From 1974 the civil parish was served by Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council, which was succeeded on 1 April 2009 by the new unitary authority of Cheshire East.^[4] Basford falls in the parliamentary constituency of Crewe and Nantwich,^[5] which has been represented by Edward Timpson since a by-election in 2008.

References

↑ "Civil population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
↑ Cheshire East Council: Parish Council Details: Weston and Basford Parish Council (accessed 2 March 2012)
↑ Weston & Basford Online: Parish Council (accessed 2 March 2012)
↑ Cheshire (Structural Changes) Order 2008 Archived 17 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine.
↑ Cheshire County Council: Interactive Mapping: Crewe and Nantwich (accessed 27 January 2009)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Basford, Cheshire.

Weston & Basford Online
Basford in the Domesday Book

Cheshire East
Principal settlements	Alsager Bollington Congleton Crewe Knutsford Macclesfield Middlewich Nantwich Sandbach Wilmslow
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